Morgan's camera work is more sure-footed than his screenplay.

| Oct 31, 2018

Terrifying and violent horror movie. Rats -- EWW.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

[Y]ou got a real opportunity here to do something really funny -- because Crispin Glover is really fun -- and something scary, but the rats, I guess, aren't up to the task.

Full Review | Mar 18, 2003

In a culture clogged with appropriated effluvia and remake cop-outs, Willard is wittier and nastier than we deserve.

Full Review | Mar 18, 2003

The casting of cult actor Crispin Hellion Glover as Willard Stiles ... is by far the best casting choice in a major American film since Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman redesigned John Malkovich.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2003

The movie keeps it close, clammy and simple, the better to focus on what is unquestionably this little thriller's strongest point: The tragic love between a boy and his rodent.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2003

A silly, snarling romp.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2003

What elevates this nouveau Willard above similar restorations of used pulp is the way it sustains the original's queasy menace while applying neatly stylized layers of grit and wit.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 14, 2003

If you've ever heard gnawing in your attic, Willard will creep you out.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Mar 14, 2003

At least Morgan knows the smartest thing he can do is just let Glover go nuts.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Mar 14, 2003

[Glover] is fascinatingly, compellingly weird.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2003

Even if it were the pits, who in his right mind would pass up an opportunity to see Crispin Glover coo and canoodle with rats?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2003

Not very stylish and not very scary.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 14, 2003

Qualifies as a guilty pleasure where you can debate afterwards what's more creepy: Glover's Willard, who is often shown in excruciating closeup, or his murderously swarming pals.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2003

It has attitude and a look, but the rats aren't scary.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 14, 2003

This is a one-riff movie and instant cult classic.

Full Review | Mar 14, 2003

An uneasy mix of effective dark comedy and stomach-churning special effects.

Full Review | Mar 14, 2003

It is unlikely that there will ever be a better horror movie about the relationship of a repressed young man to his ravenous rats.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Mar 13, 2003

The movie isn't without style, but the material can't remotely sustain 100 minutes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 13, 2003